Parton Adds To A Flurry Of Josephine Baker Films

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April 23, 1990

Dolly Parton's Sandollar productions is proceeding with plans for a Josephine Baker film - in spite of biopics about the late singing star that are now being made by HBO and The Turner Network in which Lynn Whitfield and Diana Ross star respectively.

''We expect the final script to be delivered by the end of next month,'' reports Sandollar President Howard Rosenman. Hugh Hudson (Chariots of Fire) will direct, and a young unknown will star.

Rosenman sees no conflict of interest between his project and the others: ''We're going to focus on one year in the life of Josephine Baker, when she was a wild 19-year-old who became the rage of Paris.''